The Silence Between Names (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2025
- Softcover
- New
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Paperback. When archivist Elias Ward discovers a photograph of his missing brother-taken in a place he has never been-his life fractures along the edges of reality.The image shows Jonah standing beneath a trembling streetlight, staring straight into the camera with a hollow look that shouldn't exist.On the back, a message written in an unfamiliar hand: He remembers you. Do you remember him?From that moment on, Elias becomes the target of memories that aren't his, shadows that move where shadows shouldn't, and a presence whispering his name from places just out of sight. Lost hours, shifting streets, half-forgotten dreams-everything points to a city he has visited only once, and not with his waking mind.A city that should not exist.Built from abandoned memories, fractured identities, and versions of people who never fully lived, its doors open only for those who are already losing something of themselves. And Elias-torn between guilt, longing, and the desperate need to find Jonah-is exactly the kind of person it wants.With the help of Mara Ilven, a therapist haunted by the same dream-city, and Dr. Kepler Rho, a researcher who lost his own name inside those shifting streets, Elias steps into a world that rearranges itself when you're not looking. A world where echoes speak, past selves linger like ghosts, and the greatest danger isn't becoming trapped.but forgetting why you came.In the City Between Names, the first thing to erode is your identity.The second is the person you thought you loved.The third is the version of you that returns.Jonah Ward is alive.But he is not the brother Elias remembers.And he is not the brother who remembers Elias.As the boundary between the real world and the liminal one begins to dissolve, Elias must confront the truth: the city doesn't want his name. It wants the version of him that existed before Jonah disappeared. And something that followed them out-a figure once known as The Mirror Child-is no longer bound to the city.It is watching.It is waiting.It is learning the shape of Elias's identity from the outside.And it will finish what the city started.Dark, atmospheric, poetic, and deeply unsettling, THE SILENCE BETWEEN NAMES is a psychological-metaphysical thriller about memory, identity, fractured selves, and the terrifying question that awaits everyone who enters the city: Who are you without the people who remember your name? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Silence Between Names (Paperback)
- Author
- Dorian Strafell
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798279111022
When archivist Elias Ward discovers a photograph of his missing brother—taken in a place he has never been—his life fractures along the edges of reality.
The image shows Jonah standing beneath a trembling streetlight, staring straight into the camera with a hollow look that shouldn’t exist.
On the back, a message written in an unfamiliar hand:
He remembers you. Do you remember him?
From that moment on, Elias becomes the target of memories that aren’t his, shadows that move where shadows shouldn’t, and a presence whispering his name from places just out of sight. Lost hours, shifting streets, half-forgotten dreams—everything points to a city he has visited only once, and not with his waking mind.
A city that should not exist.
Built from abandoned memories, fractured identities, and versions of people who never fully lived, its doors open only for those who are already losing something of themselves. And Elias—torn between guilt, longing, and the desperate need to find Jonah—is exactly the kind of person it wants.
With the help of Mara Ilven, a therapist haunted by the same dream-city, and Dr. Kepler Rho, a researcher who lost his own name inside those shifting streets, Elias steps into a world that rearranges itself when you’re not looking. A world where echoes speak, past selves linger like ghosts, and the greatest danger isn’t becoming trapped…
…but forgetting why you came.
In the City Between Names, the first thing to erode is your identity.
The second is the person you thought you loved.
The third is the version of you that returns.
Jonah Ward is alive.
But he is not the brother Elias remembers.
And he is not the brother who remembers Elias.
As the boundary between the real world and the liminal one begins to dissolve, Elias must confront the truth: the city doesn’t want his name. It wants the version of him that existed before Jonah disappeared. And something that followed them out—a figure once known as The Mirror Child—is no longer bound to the city.
It is watching.
It is waiting.
It is learning the shape of Elias’s identity from the outside.
And it will finish what the city started.
Dark, atmospheric, poetic, and deeply unsettling, THE SILENCE BETWEEN NAMES is a psychological-metaphysical thriller about memory, identity, fractured selves, and the terrifying question that awaits everyone who enters the city:
Who are you without the people who remember your name?
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